Absolute-ish secure access for private website [closed] - ssh

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I planning to run a private media wiki server on debian(SELinux) for all my important home documents.
I would like to be able to securely access it from the outside with laptop, tablet, or even a live-CD like LPS. It seems to me I would have the smallest attack surface if I only provided SSH to the cloud and tunneled in, maybe even incorporate a port knock to prevent casual detection. I will be serving content to a known and essentially unchanging set of users. Bandwidth efficiency isn't really a factor as concurrent connections would be rare.
Is there a more secure way to access a web server? It seems the government really likes to use smart cards although I'm not sure how. What about client side browser certificates? Yubikey?

The safest solution is probably using a virtual private network so that the server cannot be contacted at all except through an SSH-like protocol. A decent router should support this; you can get more help over at SuperUser.

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Is there a way to view/interact with a website without entering in it? [closed]

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So my school has blocked all websites (for now at least) and I'm wondering if there was a way to access them without entering into them. What I've thought is that this could be done with google as google search can show you certain parts of pages.
Also, the current configuration of the firewall allows you to do google search and access certain websites. I also know that they perform this using a man in the middle attack intercepting SSL connections. Is there any VPN, tool or script that can bypass this? Something to do with packets obfuscation using XOR gates? I've tried using many different VPNs but all seem to not work.
Thanks in advance.

Setting Up a Private MediaWiki [closed]

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I have a MediaWiki (1.32.0) running locally via WAMP on my Windows PC. I want to make the Wiki privately available online to people with a username/password that then allows people to see the Wiki.
So basically I have two big problems:
I've never hosted a wiki before, but I have hosted other, less complicated sites (such as my old personal website on HostGator) - but these sites never required a "back end" to serve content
I've never created a password blocked website. I'm thinking we'll just have one username/password combo, because we'll only allow 5-20 editors max on the Wiki; there will never be more than 1000 visitors simultaneously (and that's very, very generously high)
Any advice on either of these issues would be much, much appreciated.
Miraheze free wiki hosting will take care of this easily.

Where to get a large list of safe-for-work domain names? [closed]

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Does anyone know where I could find a list of safe-for-work (i.e. no porn, piracy sites, etc) domain names that I can use to stress test software that performs asynchronous DNS lookups without raising questions if my network admin happens to be watching?
At least several thousand would be ideal. Most lists I've found have not been filtered at all. So far, using "raw" lists for DNS queries have not raised any questions, but my next step is to create TCP connections.
EDIT: I've cleared everything with local network admin people, however, this would still be nice to have for future developers on the project.
I think you probably worry too much. Having said that how about doing a google search for 'interesting facts about butterflies', parsing all the resulting domains and using those?
Your network admin will probably be more concerned with the fact that you're stress testing a network service on his network on the order of thousands of domains. If you have any kind of decent corporate firewall it's inspecting DNS queries and could choke on a high rate of queries. If your requirement is a legitimate business requirement the best option is to have your boss talk to the head of the network department to CYA.

How to allow limited internet access to employees/children [closed]

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I was wondering how I could set up a computer (windwos xp) or browser to allow access to only 2 or 3 websites? I know where I currently work they have 'email stations' which are computers will access only to the company homepage and email login. Please let me know any ideas you all have.
Thanks!
This is accomplished by using a proxy. There are several free, open source proxies (such as squid and varnish), but it may be easier to look at some of the for-pay solutions for parental controls. I looked at net nanny before for some customers, and they were happy with it.
McAfee has some parental control software built in to its standard PC protection package.
It allows you pretty easy control over home much time can be spent online and what kind of sites can be accessed.
You can download a free trial on the website. Its worth a try.

Network Neighbours [closed]

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I am new to networking. I just basically want to know whether we can actually get to know the no of persons logged onto our network. Since i am in a university we have the same proxy address and the IP is also same. So is it possible.
Strictly speaking, this question should be asked on superuser.com.
It depends a bit on your network. If your internal IP addresses are dynamically allocated, your administrator will be able to see how many of them have been requested. He may also monitor the traffic, and see from his statistics how many addresses have actually been seen as active. If your network uses authentication, he may monitor the valid logins over time.
Which of these you define as 'people on your network' is a bit up to you. Real people don't have that kind of interface.